Master Class Marketing Strategy

What makes this program so strong and unique?

This master class provides you with scientific and practical knowledge and understanding and access to methods and tools that will allow you to set up and roll out a sound marketing strategy for your own organization.

• You learn what questions to ask and become more capable of taking the lead in defining and implementing your organization’s marketing strategy.
• You are better equipped to make connections between marketing, your organization’s strategy and other organizational units.
• You improve focus on value generation for your customers and know how to translate this into value creation for your organization.
• You can put scientific concepts to use in your own day-to-day practice.

How will this program benefit you?

New market trends are popping up constantly, prompted by technological advancements for example. Customer orientation alone is no longer enough to distinguish you from the competition. Your company’s success depends on the choices customers make. How should you adapt your marketing strategy in response? What competencies, resources and activities will you deploy? What influence can you exert? This master class teaches you how to formulate a strategy that focuses on the achievement of long-term customer value. It also demonstrates how the concept of customer value can improve attention to added value for both your customers and your organization. Finally, you discover what is required to create a winning value proposition and become a customer-oriented organization.

After this master class, you will:

• Be up-to-date on the current state of affairs in marketing
• Know how to convert your organization’s ambitions into a marketing strategy
• Understand which factors influence the behavior of existing and potential customers
• Be aware of the various marketing and strategic paradigms and know how to apply them
• Understand the importance of customer value and know how it is calculated
• Recognize the relationships between thorough market research, customer insight and a successful value proposition
• Know how formulating a strategy can contribute to the achievement of long-term customer value propositions
• Be able to pinpoint your ‘dot on the horizon’: which strategic ambition are you aiming to achieve?

How will this program benefit your organization?

As an organization, you must take care not to lose your focus on your customers. Marketing is not a department, it’s a competency. A competency that’s essential if you want to achieve long-term customer value. A good marketing strategy continuously improves on existing methods and explores new ones, gets your organization moving and stakeholders to connect. Give your organization a big boost with the knowledge you gain from this master class. Get more out of the opportunities offered by your current business model and explore future business models.

• Improve your marketing strategy through a solid scientific grounding in strategic marketing.
• Define a new or different course based on the latest marketing insights.
• Strengthen your organization’s customer relations through innovative, customer-oriented choices.

Program design Master Class Marketing Strategy

This three-day master class provides you with the latest scientific knowledge and practical tools in the field of strategic marketing. The Marketing Strategy Master Class will help you create more added value for both your customers and your own organization. How can you make your organization more customer-oriented and prepare it for the (digital) future? How do you calculate customer lifetime value? Take your marketing skills to a higher level and get to work on your own marketing strategy.

Program component contents

Day 1: Marketing strategy fundamentals

Our first day starts with the fundamentals of marketing strategy. We focus mainly on ambition and value. An organization expresses its ambition through the value it aims to achieve for its customers, shareholders, employees, partners and society. How does marketing contribute to this? Additionally, you gain insight into customer needs and competitive behavior. After all, a marketing strategy is only as good as the data on which it’s based.

Day 2: Creating a winning value proposition

Time for a new perspective on value propositions. The second day takes a look at what goes into the creation of distinctive value. How do you arrive at the best value proposition? A winning value proposition and a strong organization are actually two sides of the same coin. Marketing leadership can make all the difference, and on this day, we cover the subject in detail.

Day 3: Management and commercial impact

Our final day makes the important connection between a conceptual marketing mindset and its translation into commercial factors. You learn more about customer value and how this is calculated. You also improve your understanding of what digital marketing involves and its impact on organizations. What does the marketer of the future look like and how can you link your digital (IT) infrastructure and marketing?

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Costs Marketing Strategy Master Class

The cost of the Marketing Strategy Master Class is € 3900 (exempt from VAT).

This price includes:

• Catering packages (lunch, coffee or tea and soft drinks) during lecture periods
• Enrollment, registration and administration costs
• Access to online learning environment
• Mandatory reading material, textbooks and learning resources

Expand your professional development with the Master Class Bundle

Choose 3 master classes of your choice, save €2000, and create even greater impact for yourself and your organization. Quickly and effectively improve your knowledge and skills by connecting the latest academic insights to current issues in your own practice. Learn more about the Master Class Bundle.

How do you finance your education?

You have found the program that best suits your learning goals and ambitions. But how do you finance this? There are different ways to do that. Your employer can play a role, but there are also interesting statutory regulations that you can use yourself. We list the possibilities for you.

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After your registration you will receive, if you are applicable, within 5 days a confirmation of your registration. If there are any doubts about your admissibility, the Program Adviser will contact you.